Hugh Dallas agrees out of court settlement with SFA over Pope email scandal

Former referees chief Hugh Dallas's action for unfair dismissal against the
Scottish Football Association has been settled out of court.

Dallas soap opera: Hugh Dallas was sacked over an email about the Pope's visit to ScotlandPhoto: PA

By Telegraph staff and agencies

3:56PM BST 25 Jul 2011

Dallas left the SFA after being implicated in a row over an offensive email about the Pope. He was planning to sue the organisation at an employment tribunal in Glasgow this week.

The hearing was expected to last five days but officials have said both parties reached agreement after a conciliation process with employment relations company Acas.

An SFA spokesman said: "We can confirm that the issue has been resolved to both parties' satisfaction."

SFA chief executive Stewart Regan launched an internal inquiry in November after details of the alleged email surfaced in the press.

Reports claimed a photograph relating to the Pope's visit had been passed on in official SFA emails. The photograph showed a road sign featuring a woman and a child with a doctored message referring to the pontiff below.